Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-06
GOVERNOR OCLESBY'S MAIL.
Letters About the Anarchists Con-
tinue to Pour In.
ANTI cLEMENcY PROTESTS
A Chicago Policeman Says the Force
Will BE Demoralizcd Uuless
the Execution Takes Place
-Lingg Still Defiant.
Bushel Baskets Full.

CHICAGO, Nov. 5-[Special Telegram to
the BEE. -Advices from Springfield say that
Governor Ogesby's mail to-day was much
larger than yesterday, and was composed al
most entirely of letters relating to the an
archists. The excess of letters i'll their be-
half was not so marked as heretofore. Ger
| tain citizens appear to have become awak-
| ened to the fact that the anarchist sympathiz-
| ers are bcsicging the governor with their APP
| peals for mercy, and number have taken
| enough interest in the matter to drop few
| lines to inform the governor OF their sym
| pathy with the element of law and order.
| Notwithstanding this, the communications
| from the friends of the anarchists outnumber
| the others two to one. AS soon as the letters
are examined and indexed, they are Temporal
| rily placed in the tin boxes ofthe stenograph-
ers desk, where they may be constantly ac-
cessible. When they become filed the con-
tents are withdrawn and placed in the
vault to make room for newcomers.
| These boxes are labelled: AN
archists-for clemency" and "Anarchists
| against clemcncy" There are two boxes of
| the former marking for each of the latter.
! The task of indexing these volumnous con-
| tributions have become so great that the
| clerks haye had rubber stamps made for
| special indexng, and the letters are now
| filed with printed characters in about the
same style that the boxes are labelled.
| Attorney General Hunt arrived to-day
| from Mount Vernon, where he stopped en-
| route from Washington He has not had an
| audience with the governor yet. The state
| officers met this morning in the private office
| of the secretary of state to transact business
| which demanded their attention as COM
| mssioners of state contracts, but tho an
| archist question was of such absorbing in
| terest that they found difficulty in attending
| to anything else. The intensity of the inter
| est manifested about the state house i'll the
| governors probable action could not be
| greater. Little else is talked Of Letters have
also begun to pour in upon the state officers
| asking them to persuade Governor Ogesby
| to commute the anarchists sentences. Treas
| urer Tanner has received number of let
| ters from representative men in the southern
| part of the state, every one of which has been
emphatically in favor of hanging of the CON
| demned men. The letters have been deliv-
| cred to the governor and placed among his
| collection
AT the Jail to-day there was the usual num-
| Der Of visitors The first to present herself
was Miss Mueller, Lingg's sweetheart
| When she entered her face was fairly radi-
which separated her from her lover, she
opened up a newspaper which she held in her
hands and pointed out to him something that
was in it which caused them both to break
out into merry laughter. Miss Mueller was
not allowed to hold converse with her lover
long undisturbed this morning however. In
fact she was rather cut out from
him, his attention being demanded and
almost wholly occupied by others, who
seemed to think the business they had on
| hand was more important than the mere bill
ing and cooling of light hearted lovers. A
| shortstime after Miss Mueller got there Cap
| tain Blacks mysterious friend, whose name
is kept a close secret by everybody who
knows anything about it, arrived and at once
devoted himself to an argument with Lingg
with view of inducing him to sign the petit
| tion for a commutatOn OF the sentence,
Lingg heard him patiently for a time and
| then stepping back a pace or two from the
barricade, with his head thrown forward in
| front of him until it almost touched the wire
| screen, from his lips there poured torrent
Of burning words accompanied by swaying
of his body and wild gestculating with his
hands and arms. 1t was evident that the ar
| gumcnt used by his would-be benefactor had
| notNery much weight with him, but on the con-
trary gave him an opportunity to express
| more decisively than ever his determination
not to move finger to save himself, and his
defiance of all the law can do to him. Then
| others of the visitors tried the force of their
influence on him but all with no avail 1t is
reported that Lingg has received letters from
his mother and sister in Switzerland urging
and imploring him not to sign any petition
for pardon or clemency if he is innocent but
rather to die hundred deaths than do so.
Still the effort to induce him to relent will
not be relaxed till the very last moment and
the utmost pressure which his counsel,
friends and fellow-anarchists on the outside
| will be brought to bear on him to put his
name on the paper While Lingg poses as
IA desperate and fearless anarchist his record
does not bear out tho latter part of the claim
and it is thought by those who know him best
| that there will be no trouble about his sign
| ing a petition begging for mercy when the
! | time comes. On the night of the Haymarket
, | massacre Lingg and II companion were de
tailed to blow up the North Side police sta
| tions and to throw bombs into the passing
patrol wagons, but although the two mer
started out on their expedition well equipped
with bombs of Lingg's own manufacture
: their hearts failed them when they ap
| preached the police station and they both
! went to bed. Linggs companion afterwards
!, | turned states evidence.
I Mrs. Parsons was another of the first arri
= walls to-day. She got there earlier than il
| her wont, and she brought with her baskc
of the literature which her main business il
life at present is TO distribute. Her first pro
; ceeding on entering the jail to-day was Il
S supply number of fellowprisoncrs of he
a | husband with copies of his auto biography
" | She sold quite a number Of them. When sh,
= | had supplied all who would buy she devote,
!, , herself to her husband, and had a long con
u versation with him in a corner away from
any of the others August Spies had an un
}; usual number of visitors this morning Firs
] came his brother Chris and his wife with
! little infant in her arms Then his mothe
!. arrived and later on Miss Van Zandt and thc
1 came another young lady.
:, The editor of the Alarm, Parsons oil
q paper said this afternoon: II feel certai
I that three Of the men, if not four of them
" will hang. If they had all stuck togethe
l. none would, because they would all be MAI
:, | tyrs then and society dares nOt.do that Tn
Il | three men have been conscientious in signin
l. il, mind YOU They have been led to bcliev
il was "a mere matter of form, like signn
the appeals to the state and federal suprem
courts-a mere matter of form, not matte
:, | of principle The rest Of the men will rC
q | ceive commutation.n
"a "Will there be any trouble at the time 0
y, | the eXecutionh
mot in the least"
II "Will there be any at the funeral; Yo
i know in Paris there is when the riots hav
been--when the bodies of the executed CON
munists have been buried.n
"There won't be any trouble, ] hope an
r, believe, unless some Guiteau who know
o nothing about the case comes on and cause
trouble But two years hence we may see
> great change, Why bless your soul in 1888
y | pa,.riaI "A torch in "a papnla n RuffulO rpiOii